How states of origin regulate the rights, obligations, and services they extend to their emigrants has remained mostly in shadows migration policy research. We have tackled this gap literature by advancing Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX), which was designed for comparing degree adoption emigrant policies – also called ‘diaspora-engagement policies’ across countries a whole region and, with updat...

By using the gap overlap task, we investigated disengagement from faces and objects in children (9-17 years old) with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and its neurophysiological correlates. In typically developing (TD) children, faces elicited larger gap effect, an index of attentional engagement, and larger saccade-related event-related potentials (ERPs), compared to objects. In chil...

Advances in affective computing technologies have made it possible for researchers to investigate brain function while users interact in virtual environments. Progress in sensors and algorithms for off-the-shelf EEG systems has made it possible for gaming researchers to perform real-time estimation of human cognitive and affective states using EEG. In this study our aim was to coordinate “Task ...

BACKGROUND The literature shows the inverse association between physical activity level (PAL) and chronic diseases that have a significant burden over health care costs. However, in upper-middle income countries and in elderly population this information are scarce. OBJECTIVE To describe the annual drug expenditures for the hypertensive and diabetic elderly population in Brazil and to analyze...

BACKGROUND Elder abuse is a pervasive human right and public health issue. OBJECTIVES We aimed to examine the mortality associated with elder abuse across levels of psychological and social factors. METHODS The Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP) is a prospective population-based cohort study that began in 1993. A subset of these participants enrolled between 1993 and 2005 had elder abu...

Due to the importance of employee engagement in the last decade and the significant role which plays in concept of organizational efficiency, identifying the factors influencing this concept can help any organization to grow and improve and also maintain and guarantee the survival of organizations in today’s competitive conditions. One of the factors influencing this concept is organizational r...